Tom Anderson, the owner of Glacier Precast Concrete, gives a tour as part of the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce Manufacturing Day activities on Oct. 7. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)

Tom Anderson may be feeling a little deja vu as he assesses the workload at Glacier Precast Concrete these days. It seems a lot like the economic boom of the early 2000s that preceded the national years-long recession.

“We’re completely overwhelmed,” Anderson said about the pace of business at his manufacturing facility south of Kalispell. “We’re building [septic] tanks at a similar rate to 2004 and 2005.”. . . . .